Consultation on Trust Merger

The Trustees of Uffculme Academy Trust and The Castle Partnership Trust are exploring the benefits of a potential merger of the two trusts, to create a single bigger and stronger trust.

Stakeholder engagement is the first step in the process of deciding whether the proposed merger is the right decision for both academy trusts and all the schools.

Both trusts are mixed phase MATs with primary and secondary schools.  The merged trust would contain four nurseries/pre-schools, five primary schools and five secondary schools, one with a Sixth Form. The schools in Castle Partnership Trust are: Wellesley Park, Isambard Kingdom Brunel (IKB) and Orchard Grove Primaries, Court Fields and The Castle secondaries all of which are in Somerset. The Uffculme Academy Trust contains Uffculme Primary, Axe Valley, Holyrood and Uffculme secondaries in Devon and Neroche Primary in Somerset.

Further details are available in the stakeholder engagement document, and anyone wishing to comment is asked to send comments directly to: [email protected] (for Uffculme Academy Trust) or [email protected] (for The Castle Partnership Trust).

The closing date for any comments is 12:00 on Monday 27 February 2023.